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At the Guardian, he tagged some of his favorite books about medical breakthroughs, including:
In The Vaccine Race, Meredith Wadman describes how in the early 1960s scientists at Philadelphia’s Wistar Institute began working on a vaccine for rubella (GermanRead about another entry on the list.measles) using a controversial new method: germ-free cells from tissue extracted from an aborted foetus from a woman in Sweden. The Wistar cells were to revolutionise vaccine making, but ethical and political roadblocks meant it was 10 years before the institute was granted a patent, and it was not until 1978 that the Federal Drug Administration granted the pharmaceutical company Merck a licence for the vaccine in the US.
--Marshal Zeringue